Was not really sure where to put this, but this seems to be where a bunch of other guide-type things are, so here this is.You may have discovered upon looking up an error while playing the game that the only solution given is to delete "world.teaw" from the save folder. However, it is not so simple as that on Steam and with cloud synchronization.
Deleting "world.teaw" is apparently the sledgehammer fix for several specific errors, such as the game stopping when trying to load lore from previous characters at the fortress library, so I figured I would write a short way of how actually do it with Steam when one is called upon to delete the file. I only ever play this game on Windows, so I have no idea how it would be done on other systems. And turning off cloud synchronisation is a non-option for me (and doesn't even work by itself), as Steam no longer has an option to turn it off or on for individual games--it's either on for all games, or on for none.
This file is stored in 3 different spots if running the Steam version and using cloud synchronization:
D1: the primary save directory, where the game primarily reads/writes from
D2: a copy of the Steam cloud within the Steam directory
D3: the Steam cloud
Simply deleting the file from
D1 does not work. The game will copy and use the file from
D2 if the file is not found in
D1 (even if cloud synch is turned off in Steam, the game will still copy from
D2 in this case for some reason).
Simply deleting the file from both
D2 and
D1 does not work. Steam will download the file from
D3 to
D2 when the game starts up, then the game will grab it from
D2 and copy it to
D1 as before.
There are 2 methods I have found to dealing with this issue.
Method 1:
1: start the game up
2: delete the file from both
D1 and
D2 while on the main menu
3: either load or start a new game
4: save the game, which should generate a new "world.teaw" and be copied to both
D1 and
D2, which will then synch to
D3 upon close of game
Method 2:
1: delete the file from all 3 locations
Where are the 3 locations of the file?
D1, the primary save directory, is in the user directory on windows. It should be something like:
Code:
C:\Users\<username>\T-Engine\4.0\tome\save
D2, the cloud copy, is in the Steam directory on windows. It should be something like:
Code:
<path_to_steam>\userdata\<unique_id>\259680\remote\tome\save
D3, the Steam cloud, can be accessed with a third-party program. I used Steam Cloud File Manager Lite, which can be found at
https://github.com/GMMan/SteamCloudFile ... e/releases1: download and unzip the program somewhere
2: make sure Steam is running and logged in
3: run SteamCloudFileManager.exe
4: in the AppID field, use ToME4's appid of 259680
5: click connect
6: find "tome/save/world.teaw" and highlight it
7: click delete